Life is worth living
Zoe Mamakos, Reporter
April 18, 2019
Filed under Lifestyle, Opinion, Showcase
Life is worth living. The everyday routine. The constant argument with your alarm clock as it shakes, ringing 7:00. Again. A brand new day. You sit up in bed, accepting the idea that it’s not quite summer yet. Followed by your parent's words of encouragement floating out the door, as you promis...
Dominik McDonald
Oliver Chen, Co-Editor in Chief
April 18, 2019
Filed under Archives, Profiles, Showcase
If one happens to hear the stately timpani of Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique or the lively xylophone runs of George Gershwin’s American in Paris drifting through the music wing, the source of the music can likely be traced to senior Dominik McDonald. Since he first began taking lessons in eleme...
SASHA
Akshata Gandhe, Profiles Editor
April 18, 2019
Filed under Archives, Campus Life, Showcase
92 seconds. That is how often a person is sexually assaulted in this country, be it a 12-year-old or a 50-year-old. Junior co-leaders of SASHA (Students against Sexual Harassment and Abuse) Victoria Kyvergya and Silvia Aydinyan knew that something could be done from their part about this issue. Speaking...
Freshmen strive to improve mental health
Lucas Bleyle, Co-Editor in Chief
April 17, 2019
Filed under Archives, Campus Life, Showcase
According to a study in the Archives of General Psychiatry half of all chronic mental illness begins by age 14; three-quarters by age 24, making high school a critical time to identify and treat mental illness. Mariam Mkhitaryan and Preksha Sarda have spent their Freshmen year working on a projec...
The future of sustainability at Ames High: Carbon neutral by 2030?
Lucas Bleyle, Co-Editor in Chief
April 17, 2019
Filed under Archives, In-Depth, Showcase
On February 21, the school district hosted a showcase of the latest plans for the new high school building. At the meeting, architects from OPN, the architecture firm tasked with designing the new high school building, showed slides of the floor plans and walked the community through the different ph...
April 8th: Ames High School United
April 8, 2019
Filed under Archives, Campus Life, Showcase, Top Story
April 8th: Ames High students and staff joined community members in a peaceful display of unity, in response to a coordinated protest from a well known hate group. ...
Salty Stereotypes
Akshata Gandhe, Profiles Editor
March 26, 2019
Filed under Archives, Opinion, Showcase
“Is BuTtEr a CaRb?” These famous words were uttered by THE Regina George when Mean Girls came out in 2004. The strange portrayal of high school in that movie made a lot of us question human sanity but for some of us, the movie was everything. There probably is no high school where people h...
The Classes of Ames High: Roasts and Reflection
Jonathan Watt, Opinion Editor
March 26, 2019
Filed under Entertainment, Opinion, Showcase
*THIS IS A COMPLETE JOKE.* August 23rd: The first day of school. You trudge out of class, dragging your feet across the ground, and make your way into the main hallway. However, you come across a mind-boggling obstacle: a 3’7” gremlin, darting to and fro in an unpredictable zig-zaggy fashion acro...
Life Without A Phone
Liam Struck, Review Editor
March 13, 2019
Filed under Archives, In-Depth, Showcase
Life has gone on undisturbed for millenium without cellular towers, twitter or instagram. Then came the iPhone, a revolutionary device that changed the way we imagine reality. Something most of us couldn't live without, something I thought I could not live without. The same night I lost my phone was ...
The Community Academy: a new kind of summer experience
Lucas Bleyle, Co-Editor in Chief
March 13, 2019
Filed under Archives, Campus Life, Showcase
Preschool and elementary school kids dart around wooden benches layed out in the grass. In each eager hand is a natural item; a pinecone, a leaf, a blade of grass that they dip in paint and use to leave patterns on the benches. A few paces away, older kids use wood burners to engrave a quote into th...
Liam Struck, Reviews Editor
April 18, 2019 • Comments closed
The first promposal occured in 2350 BC, when the first caveman asked the first cave women by throwing a rock at her head with the message ooga ooga slathered with his blood....
Zoe Mamakos, Reporter
April 18, 2019 • No Comments
Life is worth living. The everyday routine. The constant argument with your alarm clock as it shakes, ringing 7:00. Again. A brand new day. You sit up in bed, accepting...
Akshata Gandhe, Profiles Editor
March 26, 2019 • No Comments
“Is BuTtEr a CaRb?” These famous words were uttered by THE Regina George when Mean Girls came out in 2004. The strange portrayal of high school in that movie...
The Classes of Ames High: Roasts and Reflection
March 26, 2019
Finals After Break? An Investigation
February 15, 2019
“It smells like broke in here!”
February 13, 2019
Seth Bequette, Academics & Arts Editor
March 14, 2019 • No Comments
I’m a bit late for the tea party that is M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Eastrail 177 Trilogy’, though to be fair the first film of this triple play was two years before...
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Get caught up in the Spider Verse
February 13, 2019